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298 Mr. E. Saunders’ Catalogue of Buprestide 
Genus Sternocera, Eschs. 
Sternocera equisignata (HH. Deyr. MS.), n. sp. 
S. viridi-cuprea; thorace largissime ac valde punctato ; elytris 
basi albifoveatis ; pectoris lateribus abdominisque segmentis 
utrinque albimaculatis. 
Shining green, with golden reflexions. Antenne bluish- 
black. Head depressed, punctured, the punctures very large 
and deep in front, so as to give it a somewhat rugose ap- 
pearance; forehead with a slight median furrow. ‘Thorax at 
the base almost twice as broad as long; sides rounded and 
gradually diverging to the posterior angles; disk very smooth 
and brilliant, covered with large remote punctures, the punctures 
becoming closer together and in many cases confluent on the 
sides, giving them a rugose appearance ; on the base at each side, 
midway between the dorsal line and the margin, is a deep small 
pit, formed as it were of two or three of the discal punctures. 
Elytra finely punctured, a little wider than the thorax, almost 
straight for about three-fifths of their length, then gradually con- 
verging to the apex, which is trispinous ; on the margin behind 
the shoulder on either side is a carina, which extends about 
one-fifth of the entire length of the elytra, it then turns 
inwards and becomes lost in an obsolete ridge; on each 
side of the base is a fovea, filled with a white pubescence. 
Abdomen punctured, the upper edge covered with a whitish 
pubescence, which extends on to the under side of the first seg- 
ment; an oblong longitudinal spot on each side of the breast, and 
two spots on each of the four latter segments of the abdomen, co- 
vered with similar pubescence; posterior margin of each segment 
cyaneous; tip of the sternum blue-black. Legs punctured; 
tarsi bronzy. 
Length 16—18 lines ; breadth 63—73. 
Pachbon. 
Sternocera punctatofoveata, n. sp. ? 
A. sp. pracedente differt elytrorum disco foveis minutis 
sparso. 
A variety of the preceding species ? 
Differs by the elytra being scattered over with numerous faint 
